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The Bomb of Bombs

I heard that the movie "The Passion of the Christ" opened today, as though we had enough films on the crucifixion of Jesus. I have read and heard reviews of it and found out what's in it. After hearing about all this, I have come to the conclusion that this may be the worst movie ever written. There are several points on which to base this. It is one of the most violent movies ever written, showing explicit poundings of big nails into Jesus' hands and blood all over the place. It seems to make a presupposition that the viewer is Christian; indeed that Christianity is the only way to go. It takes literally from the Bible even though historians doubt the authenticity of much of the Bible; people don't listen to the historians because they insist that everything in the Bible is true, despite the numerous contradictions in it. But the worst part is that it may start a wave of anti-Semitism. The movie makes Pontius Pilate into a heroic image, even though the evidence was that he was ruthless at times. It makes the Jewish community into a heathen tribe that was responsible solely for the death of Jesus. I read one reviewer who thought that Jews would regard the movie as offensive. We need a new wave of anti-Semitism like we need a hole in the head, yet this movie may gross (there are two meanings to that word!) the largest amount of any movie on record. It says something about where we are headed. Please, media, take the attention off this movie. We don't need throngs of people eager to see what I regard as the Bomb of Bombs (and I mean Bomb in the American sense; that is, a failure).